iPhone 11 (Pro): Adjust the wide angle later - how it works

With iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, you have the option of taking wide-angle shots of an image or video even though you have not activated wide-angle mode at all. We will show you how to make the wide-angle format visible afterwards.

iPhone 11: Activate wide-angle format later

The eleventh generation iPhone models are the first of their kind with an ultra wide-angle lens. The iPhone 11 now comes with two camera lenses, instead of the previous one like the iPhone XR, and the Pro models now even feature a triple camera system. With the help of the zoom control in the camera app, wide-angle shots can be taken with the iPhone 11 models.

Every now and then, however, a photo has to be taken quickly. It is easy to forget to activate the wide-angle mode and in retrospect is annoyed that content on the shot was cut off at the edge.

Exactly for this purpose, Apple integrates a function on the eleventh generation iPhones that saves you this annoyance: Instead of just a single picture, the smartphone takes a picture with all three lenses when it is triggered and saves it with a hidden image. So if you later notice that a wide-angle shot would have made more sense, you can still produce it after saving the image.

But be careful : The hidden wide-angle version of the image is only saved for 30 days after the photo was taken. If you don't want the wide-angle shot by then, the iPhone will automatically delete it.

Call up wide-angle shots afterwards: Here's how

Apple advertises the function of subsequently being able to access the wide-angle version of a picture very large. Before this works, this feature must be activated once in the system settings before the picture is taken. To do this, proceed as follows:

1. Open the system settings on your iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max.
2. Scroll down and navigate to the Camera submenu.
3. Activate the option Take photos outside the frame so that your iPhone always takes photos with the wide-angle lens.

iPhone: Enable wide angle for videos

A little tip: The video recording option outside the frame is located directly below. If you also activate the switch here, not only photos but also videos are taken simultaneously with the wide-angle lens and can be called up afterwards.

But be careful: if you take a lot of photos and shoot videos and your iPhone has a small storage capacity (e.g. 64 gigabytes for the iPhone 11), the storage space on your iPhone fills up very quickly.

This is how you get the wide-angle shots afterwards

If you have activated the function once, all your photos and videos will now be taken with the wide-angle lens in addition to the normal lens. You can now easily access these recordings via the Photos app. After taking a picture or video, do the following to access the wide-angle version of the shot:

1. Open the photo or video from which you want to view the wide-angle version
2. Click the button below that opens image and video editing
3. Select the "Crop and Rotate" editing option and easily zoom out your image or video with two fingers

Save wide-angle shot

If you now simply save the respective image or video again, the image section to be seen is now significantly larger: You have successfully produced the wide-angle version of an image or video, although you originally took the picture with the conventional camera lens.